Fabien Roussel can testify to this: in a presidential campaign, you sometimes have to have a bit of luck.
His came at the end of January, on the set of France 3. At the end of the program, the candidate had defended access for all to French gastronomy:
“Good wine, good meat, good cheese.”
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The communist did not expect to be, a few seconds later, at the center of an improbable controversy.
A part of the radical left considered that his remarks were excluding, if not insulting.
Good performance
Until then very discreet, Fabien Roussel surfed on the occasion to set himself up as a defender of a
“popular left”
which would face a
“totally disconnected left”
from reality.
"I'm fed up with this left that makes us feel guilty when we take the car, we eat meat,"
he repeats as soon as he can.
And it works: Fabien Roussel experienced a small tremor in the polls, up to 4%.
Far from overturning the table but a great performance for the PCF which…
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